Lee will be next Central basketball coach

Beaumont ISD will announce Robert Lee as the next head boys basketball coach at Central High School at its board meeting on Thursday evening.

Lee, who replaced Calvin Rice after he was placed on indefinite suspension with pay this season, was among nine applicants that applied for the job.

Lee led the Jaguars to the first round of the Class 4A playoffs this season. Central (13-17) finished in third place in District 20-4A.

The list included five BISD employees and Kountze head coach Duane Joubert. Other BISD applicants were Jimmie Weaver, who is the Central assistant girls basketball coach. West Brook assistants Ronald Jackson and Patrick Brown and Ozen assistant Franklin Paul.

Among other applicants are former Memorial girls head coach Joseph Fonteneaux, who resigned from the job in 2009. Defron Fobb of Lange Middle School in Columbia, MO and Randall Nelson of Cypress.